Arrival
Arrival
Day 1
Lake Manyara day and night game drive, walk with an armed ranger
Lake Manyara day and night game drive, walk with an armed ranger
Meet your professional driver-guide at your hotel in Arusha town at 08:30 am and drive with picnic lunch packs to Lake Manyara Park for a game drive until the afternoon. After lunch, we start on a guided walk inside the park, accompanied by an armed ranger. A walking safari is an excellent break from game drives. Later in the evening, we drive to Endoro Lodge for an early dinner.
After dinner, we leave the lodge about 20:00pm and explore the park for an approximate 3-hour night game drive. Your expert guide will take you through the park’s diverse habitats in search of nocturnal animals and sounds. At 22:30pm, we return to Endoro Lodge for an overnight stay.
- Main Destination:
- Lake Manyara National Park
- Accommodation:
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Endoro Lodge
Wildlife in Lake Manyara NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 2
Game drive en-route to Lake Victoria through Ngorongoro Conservation Area & Serengeti National Park
Game drive en-route to Lake Victoria through Ngorongoro Conservation Area & Serengeti National Park
After an early breakfast, you will start a full-day game drive with a picnic lunch en-route to Lake Victoria through the Ngorongoro Conservation Area and Serengeti National Park. In the evening, drive into the nearby hills to take a look at the rural areas of the Sukuma people. You will drive through many villages and see many farms with cotton, ground nuts, cassava, sorghum and others. You will also see some herds of cattle scattered around.
The Sukuma people are famous for keeping a lot of cattle and farming. Their life is simple and they have been living in this area for centuries. See the local school and take a stroll to the top of a small kopje. Dinner and overnight at Speke Bay Lodge in Lake Victoria.
- Main Destination:
- Lake Victoria
- Accommodation:
- Speke Bay Lodge
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 3
Lake Victoria fishing and Sukuma culture experience
Lake Victoria fishing and Sukuma culture experience
After breakfast, go on a trip to a fishing village with a traditional canoe. Fishermen will paddle the canoes and on the way, the scene is typical of the lakeshore with African-style women toiling in the fields and men fishing. Traditional songs are typical for fishermen when paddling, taking one back in time as they sing songs of home, cattle, and life.
From the distance, you can see the white lateen sails of fishing dhows or boats returning from a night fishing far out on the lake. Spend the afternoon visiting some villages around Lake Victoria. Another highlight of this day is visiting the traditional healer in one of the Sukuma villages. Late in the afternoon, you will drive back to the lakeshore at Speke Bay Lodge for dinner and overnight.
- Main Destination:
- Lake Victoria
- Accommodation:
- Speke Bay Lodge
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 4
Serengeti National Park
Serengeti National Park
Early In the morning, you will drive to Serengeti National Park for a game drive where you will take beautiful photographs. In the afternoon, you will have another game drive in Serengeti until sunset. Afterward, you can freshen up before dinner and overnight stay.
Wildlife statistics currently indicate that Serengeti has large herbivore species of over 1,300,000 wildebeest, 250,000 Thomson’s gazelle, 200,000 zebra, 70,000 Impala, 50,000 Topi, 30,000 Grant's gazelle, 10,000 Eland, many Antelope, and hundreds of predators. Head to Serengeti Luxury Tented Camp for dinner and overnight.
- Main Destination:
- Serengeti National Park
- Accommodation:
- Central Serengeti Luxury Camp
Wildlife in Serengeti NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 5
Serengeti National Park
Serengeti National Park
Early morning, at 05:30am, collect your breakfast box and proceed for a sunrise game drive until 11:00am. Drive back to the camp to collect your picnic lunch box and proceed for a full-day game drive in this wonderful national park.
Our guides will choose the best spotting locations for the time of year. We can spend time at the hippo pool watching these majestic animals laze about in the cool water, happily living alongside the crocodiles. We can watch a big pride of lions in the middle of the migration, sometimes surrounded by wildebeest, sometimes by zebra.
This diverse and interesting landscape will provide us with the ultimate game-viewing experience. We will hopefully see all of the plains game like elephant, giraffe, zebra, wildebeest, lion and if you are lucky, the elusive leopard and cheetah. We will also experience a huge amount of interesting birdlife. We will have dinner and overnight at Serengeti Heritage Luxury Tented Camp.
- Main Destination:
- Serengeti National Park
- Accommodation:
- Central Serengeti Luxury Camp
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 6
Serengeti to the rim of Ngorongoro Crater
Serengeti to the rim of Ngorongoro Crater
Wake up early in the morning for a cup of coffee followed by an early game drive in Serengeti National Park. You will then return to the camp and after brunch you will depart with an en-route game drive to Ngorongoro Conservation Area.
You are in the Serengeti plains, a natural World Wonder, and the first natural African icon. Explore wild predators such as lions, cheetahs, and leopards in the branches of trees. See flamingos and water birds on Lake Magadi, as well as lovebirds and kingfishers across the Seronera River Valley. It is only in the Serengeti where you will see millions of big wild mammals and maybe the wildebeest migration. Then, you will depart with an en-route game drive across the kopjes of Serengeti to explore the cheetahs, lions, and leopards. Hyenas, jackals, wild dogs, elephants, and small antelopes are plentiful. Head to Rhino Lodge for dinner and overnight stay.
- Main Destination:
- Ngorongoro Crater
- Accommodation:
- Rhino Lodge
Wildlife in Ngorongoro Crater
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 7
Ngorongoro Crater
Ngorongoro Crater
After an early breakfast at 06:00am you will descend to the crater floor for about 6-hours game drive with picnic lunch boxes. It is a wonderful time to experience the crater, especially in the beautiful morning hours. This is when you may see lions hunting or hippos returning to the water after a night searching for food on land.
The Ngorongoro Conservation Area is the world’s "garden of Eden" and where you can find some specific species of wildflowers. Here you will also have an amazing experience to see the natural crater and flamingos in late May and early June. Also, Ngorongoro is where you will usually find the black rhino. In the late evening, you will drive to Arusha that makes the end of your tour.
- Main Destination:
- Ngorongoro Crater
- Accommodation:
- No accommodation (End of tour)
- Meals & Drinks:
